Programs
Stranger Eyes
FILMeX Competition
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Introduction
Singapore, Taiwan, France, USA / 2024 / 126 min
Director： YEO Siew Hua
A young father entranced by video of a family picnic. We realize that his little daughter has gone missing, and this is the latest footage her young parents have of her. Before long, DVDs of their daughter start showing up on their doorstep. They discover someone has been surveilling them from long before–could this person be the key to getting back their daughter? Yeo Siew Hua’s follow-up to “A Land Imagined” starts out as a crime thriller, but the case is solved relatively quickly with the Singapore Police Force’s vast store of CCTV footage. By that point the film has transformed beyond a mere thriller into a subtle, dark, meditative and ultimately baffling story of multiple layers, about contemporary isolation and surveillance culture. What is the significance of observing and being observed in the age of mass surveillance? This film explores human loneliness and vulnerability through the examination of this great and pressing question. Screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Director： YEO Siew Hua
Yeo Siew Hua’s A LAND IMAGINED (2018) won the Golden Leopard at the 71st Locarno Film Festival and was Singapore’s entry to the 92nd Academy Awards. The film also won him Best Original Screenplay at the 56th Golden Horse Film Awards in Taipei. He is also the head writer for the series and the feature documentary, THE OBS: A SINGAPORE STORY (2014). Yeo studied film at Ngee Ann Polytechnic and graduated in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore.
Schedule
11/25（Mon）18:25 -
Marunouchi TOEI
Guest
YEO Siew Hua（Director）、URATA Hideho（Cinematographer）
11/27（Wed）10:00 -
Marunouchi TOEI